ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Bicaudaviridae

David Prangishvili (1) , Mart Krupovic (1) , Ictv Report Consortium

1 BMGE - Biologie Moléculaire du Gène chez les Extrêmophiles

The family Bicaudaviridae includes viruses that infect hyperthermophilic archaea in the genus Acidianus. The circular double-stranded DNA genome of Acidianus two-tailed virus consists of 62 730 bp, and replication can be either lytic or lysogenic. Virions undergo unique extracellular morphogenesis, being released from host cells as spindle-shaped particles that subsequently develop long tails, one at each of the two pointed ends. The spindle-shaped morphology represents a group of archaea-specific virion morphotypes. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the Bicaudaviridae which is available at www.ictv.global/report/bicaudaviridae.

Mots clés: ICTV Report; Acidianus two-tailed virus; Bicaudaviridae; taxonomy

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Virologie; Génomique, Transcriptomique et Protéomique [q-bio.GN]

David Prangishvili, Mart Krupovic, Ictv Report Consortium. ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Bicaudaviridae. Journal of General Virology, 2018, 99, pp.864-865. ⟨10.1099/jgv.0.001106⟩. ⟨pasteur-01977331⟩